A/N: I'M BACK, BABY! I was in the U. P. all week and it was AWESOME!

Great news! The day after this chapter is posted, the TSA is back on! I'm putting up a new chapter tomorrow, so keep an eye on the story page, y'all!

Enjoy the chapter!

"SALUT!" Lilian yelled, throwing open the door.

The place Lilian knew of where they could get room and board for almost nothing? Her own house. 18975 Canterbull Road, just outside of Mount Clemens.

A girl that was almost an older version of Lilian with longer blonde hair poked her head around the corner.

"Hey, Lil," she greeted. "Who're your friends?"

"People from Japan, and one from Italy," Lilian informed her. "One of them is-"

"Is one of them your pen pal?" the girl interrupted. At Lilian's nod, she smiled. "Cool! Which one?"

Lilian gestured to Yuki, who waved.

"Guys, and Yuki, this is my sister, Tara. Tara these are some of Yuki's friends."

Tara nodded at them, said to Lilian, "Mom's upstairs," and disappeared around the corner.

Lilian opened her mouth, and on impulse, everyone covered their ears.

"MOM! SOME FRIENDS OF MINE NEED A PLACE TO STAY!"

(I'm too lazy to write down what happened at the moment, but let's just say they had dinner and slept in their chosen guest rooms, kay?)

The Next Day

The group that now included Lilian split up. Alex, Madoka, and Yuki accompanied Lilian into downtown Mount Clemens, while Frieda dragged Kimiko off to do some shopping, and Gingka, Kenta, and Benkei decided to try and find a stadium so they could beyblade.

"So remind me where we're going?" Alex asked Lilian.

"You guys need info about these star things," Lilian replied, "and there's a bookshop downtown by the Box Theatre Cafe that only sells books on the subject of beyblade. There's sure to be a book there that'll tell you guys what's going on."

The shop turned out to be a sort of run down store with nothing on display in the display window, and the letters BEYBLADE BOOKSTORE overhead.

As Lilian pushed the door open, a rusted bell over their heads rang.

"Boy," Madoka remarked, looking around the store. "This shop is pretty... old."

She wasn't really wrong. The shop was dimly lit up by lights from the ceiling, giving the shop a creepy look. The books were on wooden bookshelves, with some of the price stickers peeling off the books they were stuck to. In fact, some had even fallen off their books. An old woman wearing bifocals was sitting behind the counter, looking up when they came in.

"Can I help you kids?" she asked.

Lilian nervously took a breath.

"Uh, yeah. A couple weeks ago, six stars fell from the sky, and entered different beyblades around the world. Would you happen to know...?"

The woman laughed, although it was more of a bark.

"Young lady, these books aren't here for nothing, you know. These books contain everything there is to know about beyblades. We've even got books about what you're looking for!"

"So, would you happen to know which book is the most accurate?" Alex asked.

Everyone looked over at her.

"What? Sometimes books aren't accurate. I'm just saying, jeez."

The woman came out from behind the counter and went to a corner of the store. She brought back to them a book that was so old some of the pages looked like they were falling out. The cover was made of brown leather, and looked like it had been made over a century ago.

"I think this is the book you want," she said.

Lilian took the book, then started searching her pockets for her wallet. "Okay, thanks. How much will it be?"

The woman laughed/barked again. "Young lady, that book has been here since this store first opened, in the 1920s. You can have it for free."

The Box Theatre Cafe

"So what's the title of that book?" Alex asked. The four of them were sitting at a table near the window, and Yuki and Madoka were leading through the book.

Madoka looked up from it. "There's no title, actually. The book says that all this took place over ten thousand years ago, in what's Greece today."

"Well, what's the story?" Lilian asked.

Madoka looked back at the book, and began...

Long ago, back before the first of the Ancient Sumerians, there was a prospering kingdom. This kingdom was ruled by the Queen. Her name was Aaliyah, and was sometimes called the Good Queen.

Queen Aaliyah was a kind and good queen, and lead her peoples to wealth and prosperity.

But when the King of a neighboring kingdom, Zeus, informed her of the rise of King Hades, she refused to allow her peoples to go to war against him. Zeus, however, did nothing to persuade Queen Aaliyah to assist in the war.

When King Hades was sealed away, Queen Aaliyah's kingdom participated in the rejoicing of his defeat. During the celebration, Queen Aaliyah slipped away, to have some time to herself for a while.

However, while she was walking to her chambers, she heard the voice of King Hades speaking to her.

"Come to me, Queen Aaliyah," he said. "Come to me."

Hypnotized by his power, Queen Aaliyah came to where Diablo Nemesis was sealed away by King Zeus. It was calling to her, but as she walked toward the beyblade, mesmerized, it changed into another beyblade. The name of this beyblade was unknown.

Queen Aaliyah, now completely corrupted by it's power, became a tyrannical and evil queen, and none could stop her evil ways.

Except for six others.

These six others were the princesses of the six other kingdoms that fought against Queen Aaliyah the Evil. The princesses possessed beyblades that were gifted to them by Gaea, our Mother Earth, that contained the power of the elements. While fighting against the evil Queen, the princesses grew to be known as soldiers of Legend. Even the Legendary Blader Warriors, all men, showed to have great respect towards these soldiers of Legend.

The six princesses were able to defeat the evil Queen Aaliyah by working and combining their powers into the equivalent of Gaea's legendary power. The elements they possessed were the four main elements, Earth, Air, Fire, and Water, and also two secondary elements: Magic, and Death.

Yet as the six princesses sealed Queen Aaliyah, in an island far, far away from her kingdom, Queen Aaliyah made a prophecy: After ten thousand years had passed, she would rise again and dominate the world Mother Earth had come to be.

As Madoka finished, everyone remained silent.

"Wow," Lilian finally said. "That's some story. If you guys hadn't come and told me that it was happening, I'd think it was just a fairy tale."

"Me too," Alex agreed. "I'd also think that, but I saw those stars fall, so I know it's not a fairy tale. It's the real deal."

"So since Miss Kimiko has Cross Nightmare," Yuki said, thinking hard. "That must mean that she has the Magic element. And Miss Frieda has Earth Virgo, a revamped version of it, so she has the Earth element."

"Right," Madoka agreed. "So, so far we've only found two of the Legendary Soldiers."

"Well, one of them is in Michigan," Alex reminded her, "so when we find that one, we'll have three found."

"Miss Lilian," Yuki said, turning to Lilian. "Would you happen to know?"

Lilian thought hard, and finally admitted. "I'm sorry you guys, but I don't know. But I swear, I'll help you."

Suddenly, they heard someone bang open the door. Turning around, they saw a man wearing jeans and a Detroit Tigers sweatshirt run into the cafe, his eyes wild and shrieking "HELP!" hysterically. Lilian jumped off her chair, ran over to him, and asked him what was going on. She ran back, saying, "Bad news!"

"What? What?" Alex asked.

"The man said that there was a bey battle going on outside St. Peter's!" Lilian exclaimed. "He said that three kids were battling three others!"

"Who were the three kids?" Madoka asked, suddenly having a bad feeling about who they were.

"He said that one was short, one was a fat kid, and the other had spiky red hair."

Alex, Madoka, and Yuki looked nervously at each other.

"What's wrong?" Lilian asked. Then it dawned on her. "Oh..."

The other three joined her in saying, "... crap."

Then they hightailed it out of the cafe and towards the church.

A/N: Cliffhanger! Don't you just love those? :)